Gina Trapani

Free domain name service Open DNS speeds up your web surfing sessions and protects you from phishing sites.

OpenDNS provides free DNS server addresses which you enter on your home router or within your computer's network settings. The service caches the billions of DNS requests made by its users into a giant database on a distributed network, which turbocharges surfing for everyone who uses it. Bonus: Open DNS flags phishing sites and auto-corrects URL typos (try lifehacker.co), so it might be a good Thanksgiving hookup for Aunt Mitzy and Uncle Al, too. — Gina Trapani